Jeffrey Wright 5-29-2015

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JEFFREY JAMES WRIGHT 10129 Rockwood Road Charlotte, NC 28215 980.322.9229 [email protected] Motivated, highly experienced Manager with the ability to oversee commercial property management operations. Utilize a background in negotiating, building relationships and collaborating with clients including C-level executives, contractors and suppliers. Proficient in strategic planning, customer retention strategies, sales leadership, operations oversight, operations streamlining and process efficiency improvement. ______________________________________________________________________________ Professional Job Summary Development-Management, Inc. Charlotte, NC Operations Manager Mar 2009 Present Proactively oversee and direct a wide range of operations toward improving, managing and maintaining 14 retail shopping centers (949,551 square feet) and five self-storage properties (387,260 square feet). Collaborate and negotiate with managers, vendors, tenants and investors to ensure long-term profits are maximized. Set, manage and oversee all self-storage management development, pricing strategies, promotional campaigns, budgets, expense allocation and reporting. Manage and resolve shopping center tenant concerns, delinquencies, maintenance issues and annual CAM reconciliations. Perform frequent property visits and inspections. Selected Highlights: Oversaw the transformation for a struggling two year old 575-unit property by increasing monthly revenues by 74% ($35,000 to $61,900) within 16 months during a recessed market by instituting effective marketing and new pricing strategies coupled with aggressive negotiations with prospective tenants. Successfully increased the income by over $1.50 per square foot facility-wide within a one-year timeframe for two different facilities while concurrently increasing the occupancy by 13% and 23% respectively. Directed all opening processes and operations for a new 60,000 square foot, 400+ unit storage facility and office building including all pricing, marketing, sales and compliance strategies. Currently developing plans for property expansion. Contributed to restructuring the company-wide bonus plan tied to NOI, improving manager motivation to increase profits resulting in continued month after month record NOI results. Stephen James Associates (An Allegis Group Company) Charlotte, NC Executive Recruiter Jan Nov 2008 Conducted up to 40 in depth recruiting interviews and new business development meetings to produce new candidates and job placement opportunities. Recruiting process included an aggressive company sourcing approach to identify new candidates who were inactive in searching for a new job and acted as their new career consultant. Successfully acquired a new 30% fee exclusive retainer placement contract for a company based on previous contingent contract search results.

Transcript of Jeffrey Wright 5-29-2015

JEFFREY JAMES WRIGHT

10129 Rockwood Road ♦ Charlotte, NC 28215 ♦ 980.322.9229 ♦ [email protected]

Motivated, highly experienced Manager with the ability to oversee commercial property management

operations. Utilize a background in negotiating, building relationships and collaborating with clients

including C-level executives, contractors and suppliers. Proficient in strategic planning, customer

retention strategies, sales leadership, operations oversight, operations streamlining and process

efficiency improvement.

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Professional Job Summary

Development-Management, Inc. – Charlotte, NC

Operations Manager Mar 2009 – Present

Proactively oversee and direct a wide range of operations toward improving, managing and maintaining

14 retail shopping centers (949,551 square feet) and five self-storage properties (387,260 square feet).

Collaborate and negotiate with managers, vendors, tenants and investors to ensure long-term profits are

maximized. Set, manage and oversee all self-storage management development, pricing strategies,

promotional campaigns, budgets, expense allocation and reporting. Manage and resolve shopping center

tenant concerns, delinquencies, maintenance issues and annual CAM reconciliations. Perform frequent

property visits and inspections.

Selected Highlights:

Oversaw the transformation for a struggling two year old 575-unit property by increasing

monthly revenues by 74% ($35,000 to $61,900) within 16 months during a recessed market by

instituting effective marketing and new pricing strategies coupled with aggressive negotiations

with prospective tenants. Successfully increased the income by over $1.50 per square foot facility-wide within a one-year

timeframe for two different facilities while concurrently increasing the occupancy by 13% and

23% respectively. Directed all opening processes and operations for a new 60,000 square foot, 400+ unit storage

facility and office building – including all pricing, marketing, sales and compliance strategies.

Currently developing plans for property expansion. Contributed to restructuring the company-wide bonus plan tied to NOI, improving manager

motivation to increase profits resulting in continued month after month record NOI results.

Stephen James Associates (An Allegis Group Company) – Charlotte, NC

Executive Recruiter Jan – Nov 2008

Conducted up to 40 in depth recruiting interviews and new business development meetings to produce

new candidates and job placement opportunities. Recruiting process included an aggressive company

sourcing approach to identify new candidates who were inactive in searching for a new job and acted as

their new career consultant. Successfully acquired a new 30% fee exclusive retainer placement contract

for a company based on previous contingent contract search results.

JEFFREY JAMES WRIGHT

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car – Charlotte, NC

Account Manager / Assistant Manager Jun 2002 – Jan 2008

Proficiently collaborated in facilitating the acquisition, funding, maintenance, fueling, insuring and selling

of a total fleet of approximately 1,600 vehicles for 40 different clients. Trained clients in the value of

cycling vehicles via cost analysis strategies. Presented business solutions to executive management –

including the CEO, CFO, Sales Manager, Operations Officer, Fleet Manager and HR Director.

Selected Highlights:

Drove an increase in average vehicle occupancy from 81% in 2003, 86% in 2004 and 88% in

2005 by taking a more aggressive approach to reservation policies.

Collaborated with the Utilization Management team in instituting new processes for an October

2005 Furniture Market Event, resulting in a record high operating profit while maintaining an

“excellent” customer service quality score of 88%.

Successfully developed and advanced the careers of nine employees toward management

positions.

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Education

Wake Forest University – Calloway School of Business & Accountancy

Bachelor of Science, Business (May 2002)

Superior School of Real Estate (accredited by North Carolina Real Estate Commission)

NC Real Estate Broker License #284357 (Apr 2015)

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Areas of Expertise

General Management

Process Streamlining

Staff Training / Oversight

Marketing Programs

Operations Management

Operations Oversight

Contract Negotiating

Sales Forecasting

Business Development

Budget Oversight

Procurement Strategies

Cost Reduction Planning